Students read and reflect on Ella Wheeler Wilcox’s poem, Protest with special attention to how its rhythm can be embodied and the interplay with the poem’s rhythm and content. Students are also called to perform different spoken word poems, exploring rhythm.

To think through one’s culture, power, positionality and possibility.  In the series of learning sessions, students will explore their surface, shallow and deep culture that makes up who they are and how they engage in the world.  They will link this understanding to their own positionality and begin to see where power resides. They will be asked to think futuristically about what their possibilities are and how their positionality can be used for change.  This learning sessi

Whoever’s holding the frame gets to tell the story, shape the vision, because Europeans have told the story that’s the story we (get). -...